Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses;

Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses
Catalogued and surveyed by Dr Roger B. Williams MBE
Hon. Music Advisor to NTS



Master Index – Volume Selection

BUC : The British Union-Catalogue of Early Music
CPM : Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library to 1980

Sunday 14th December 2025

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Drum  Dr 13  S.7. 6
SCOTTISH SONGS BY BURNS
Dru Dr 13/1  RBW 551

A Select Collection | of | Original Scotish Airs | for the Voice. | To each of which are added, | Introductory & Concluding Symphonies, | Accompanyments for the Violin & Piano Forte | By | Pleyel. | With Select & Characteristic Verses by the most admired Scotish | Poets, adapted to each Air; many of them entirely new. | Also | Suitable English Verses, in addition to such of the Songs as are written | in the Scotish dialect | First Set [ed. George Thomson]
[c1794]    Preston & Son .. 97 Strand For the Proprietor G. Thomson

pp.1-25  

Voice and keyboard only

Preface to the Second Edition 1st January 1794

Short Title  > A select collection of original Scottish airs, 1st set
Cmp/Arr  > Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) (arr.)
Auth/Ed  > Various Writers   |   Thomson, George (1757-1851) (ed.)
Pr/Pub/Bks  > Preston & Son   |   George Thomson

Dru Dr 13/2  RBW 552

A Select Collection | of | Original Scotish Airs, | for the Voice. | To each of which are added | Introductory & Concluding Symphonies, & | Accompanyments for the Piano Forte, & Violin: | By | Kozeluch. | With Select & Characteristic Verses by the most admired Scotish Poets; adapted | to each Air, the greater number of these written for this work by | Burns. | Also suitable English Verses in addition to most of the Songs | in the Scotish dialect. | Second Set [ed. George Thomson]
   Preston .. 97 Strand sold also by the Proprietor G. Thomson Edinburgh

pp.26-50  

Voice and keyboard only

Short Title  > A select collection of original Scottish airs, 2nd set
Cmp/Arr  > Leopold Kozeluch (1747-1818) (arr.)
Auth/Ed  > Burns, Robert (1759-1796)   |   Thomson, George (1757-1851) (ed.)
Pr/Pub/Bks  > Preston   |   George Thomson